Raj Kumar Bansal, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, P.S. Medical College, Karamsad - 388 325, Gujarat.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1993 Jul;35(3):159-61.
The present study highlights substance use patterns of 300 child labourers from 6 slums in Sural city and identifies the microsocial and macrosocial stressors which initiate and perpetuate their substance use. It was observed that 135 (45%) of the child labourers had used some substance with a mean of 1.5 substances used per child. Tobacco smoking was the most common form of substance abuse followed by tobacco chewing, snuff, cannabis and opium. This study highlights an urgent need for the containment of substance abuse by these vulnerable early initiators.
本研究强调了苏拉市 6 个贫民窟 300 名童工的物质使用模式，并确定了启动和延续他们物质使用的微观社会和宏观社会压力源。研究观察到，135 名（45%）童工使用了某种物质，每个儿童平均使用 1.5 种物质。吸烟是最常见的物质滥用形式，其次是咀嚼烟草、鼻烟、大麻和鸦片。这项研究强调了迫切需要遏制这些易受伤害的早期使用者的物质滥用。
